Articles on Teaching English (Page 3)

Teaching tips and classroom activities for time expressions with narrative tenses and Used to.

The top children's books for practising typical EFL language points, with interactive classroom activities for each picture book.

A quick guide to putting someone in the right level, giving a good impression, and finding out other vital information as you do so.

Making sure that students find out the best ways to improve their English outside the classroom without needing to diverge from your class's curriculum, with many ideas for interactive classroom activities on the topic of language learning.

Stimulating and useful practice with one of the easiest and most motivating ways of getting lower level and younger students to talk about themselves in English.

An article about using Word Impact charts to channel vocabulary according to a person's age, gender, work, and attitude.

How to teach ESL to to students with Learning Difficulties

Going beyond students chatting about themselves.

How to make sure Cambridge FCE students get what they most need and the teacher finds out what you need to from day one

Adapting the nice ideas of needs analysis and course design to the situations we actually teach in.

Tips for getting an advantage in the very competitive field of writing about English language teaching.

Suggestions for useful and easy to write articles that any teacher at all could write at least one of.

Reasons why everyone in TEFL should publish at least something, then how to choose what to do and to go about doing it.

Four ways of getting to the point of being paid to write for publishers of English language teaching materials, with a detailed examination of two of them.

Using the positive aspects of authentic texts, getting rid of the negative aspects, and deciding when graded texts might be better.

Stimulating activities for chunks of language

Stimulating speaking activities for adjective plus more or -er

Making brainstorming more useful and fun

Making a popular topic useful and suitable for all classes

Ways of helping students learn by helping them learn to trust the teacher.

Going a little and much further than talking about running, jumping and swimming.

Teaching the popular topic of sport and using that topic to practise loads of other language.

What do you do when you find that students are reluctant to ask questions about the class or their homework?

The standard way of doing a listening with many small and large variations.

Here are some pointers to help you judge whether you have got the right balance of sit down and moving around activities in your classes, and then some tips on how to think about making changes.